Posted on 04/26/2023 3:17:38 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
A federal jury on Tuesday began hearing columnist E. Jean Carroll’s allegations that Donald Trump raped her in a department-store dressing room in the 1990s, in a civil trial spurred by a recent New York law that gave alleged long-ago survivors of sexual assault a new opportunity to file lawsuits.
“We will present overwhelming evidence that Ms. Carroll is telling the truth,” Shawn G. Crowley, a lawyer for Ms. Carroll, told jurors during opening statements in the civil case.
Joe Tacopina, a lawyer for Mr. Trump, said Ms. Carroll made up the story for money and political reasons. “What E. Jean Carroll is doing is an affront to justice,” he said.
Ms. Carroll, a former columnist for Elle magazine, filed the suit last November under the new New York law, seeking damages and a retraction from Mr. Trump of statements she says were defamatory. The trial is expected to last from five to 10 days.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Tuesday chose a nine-member jury, which he has ruled will remain anonymous because of the risk that jurors could face unwanted media attention and harassment from people unhappy with their verdict.
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When’s the Tara Reade trial start?
a FEDERAL JURY???? WTH??? FEDERAL???
Or the Juanita Broaddrick.
I think I read that George Conway was behind this lawsuit!!!
If you don’t have a date on which this rape supposedly happened, it is almost impossible to mount a defense against such charges. That’s what they are counting on here, much as Blasey-Ford was counting on in the Kavanaugh accusations.
Of all his lawsuits, this one I really want to come back innocent on all charges. I can’t stand that woman. I’d like to see her have to pay lawyers fees on top of the innocence.
We live in a lawless banana republic now.
Maybe this was the last straw for Kellyanne
This should be a very interesting trial.
Another trial in a corrupt deep blue state. The corrupt U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Tuesday chose a nine-member jury.
Then, the identity of the jury is a secrey, if they exist at all
What could go wrong
Does she have a blue dress?
Alec Baldwin — innocent of shooting the person that everyone saw him shoot.
Donald Trump — Thirty years ago? Who the heck knows what happened 30 years ago? Let’s just find him guilty.
Kellyanne had a WHOLE BOX of Last Straws!! How she ever stayed with him is beyond me!
Nine member jury...This may be one of those trials where the judge can actually make the final decision...no matter what the jury says.
How did a state of New York rape lawsuit end up in federal court?
The justice is getting raped all right
It’s New York.
Common sense and rules do not matter.
Gov. Hochul wants a full ban on the sale of tobacco. Owners of small convience stores and tobacco shops will close up.
To counter that economic carnage, New York is accelerating the sale of weed, canabis, canabis edibles..
Mebe we now go visit our guy down the street to buy our weed, vape stuff, and smokes
How does a New York State law “spur” a federal trial?
Do DJT and his lawyers get to know who the jurors are?
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